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diff --git a/readline/doc/hstech.texinfo b/readline/doc/hstech.texinfo index 54100908407..12fff2c9a75 100644 --- a/readline/doc/hstech.texinfo +++ b/readline/doc/hstech.texinfo @@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ If the programmer desires, he can use the Readline library, which includes some history manipulation by default, and has the added advantage of command line editing. +Before declaring any functions using any functionality the History +library provides in other code, an application writer should include +the file @code{<readline/history.h>} in any file that uses the +History library's features. It supplies extern declarations for all +of the library's public functions and variables, and declares all of +the public data structures. + @node History Storage @section History Storage @@ -334,7 +341,7 @@ if expansions did take place; @item -1 if there was an error in expansion; @item 2 -if the returned line should only be displayed, but not executed, +if the returned line should be displayed, but not executed, as with the @code{:p} modifier (@pxref{Modifiers}). @end table |